The new generation All-Wheel Drive Subaru Legacy has been awarded the Medium/Large Car of the Year award by AMI and New Zealand Autocar magazine.
This is the third consecutive generation of Legacy (known in Australia as Liberty) to receive an Autocar Car of the Year award, rounding out a decade of excellence for Legacy.
Legacy has won a wide variety of awards over the last 20 years including Japan Car of the Year in 2003, six NZ Autocar Car of the Year Awards over the past decade including two overall Autocar Car of the Year titles, and two AA Motoring Excellence Awards.
The new generation of Legacy has also been awarded the prestigious “Triple Crown” of safety awards: five-star ANCAP, five-tar Euro NCAP, and the US Top Safety Pick from the IIHS.
Highly rated from its earliest days for crashworthiness, Legacy helped establish Subaru's safety credentials in New Zealand, with every variant getting dual front airbags in 1994.
Ten years later in 2004, every new Legacy received a five-star rating for occupant safety from the independent and respected Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP).
Today, every Subaru in the range has a five-star ANCAP rated model and Impreza is New Zealand's safest car according to independent ANCAP crash testing.
In its fifth generation form launched this year, Legacy is larger yet more economical than any predecessor and produces the lowest emissions.
Together with Outback, it has introduced the sophisticated and ultra-efficient Lineartronic Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT) to the range, offering petrol fuel economy of just 8.4 litres per 100km.
About Subaru
Every Subaru sold in Australia features Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive and a horizontally opposed boxer engine, standard Vehicle Dynamics Control electronic stability program, and a five-star rating for occupant safety from the independent Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP). The result – driving confidence.